Mitchell and Webb Situation - Refreshing Beer Part 1

[MrOdsplut]

those guys are GOOD at downing drinks

[seacow1970]

Ooh what a good idea. On a day like this.

Loved this one and the others that went with it.

[finsam98]

pint,is that?! oooh! <<< always cracks me up :'D

[cdbelfield]

Pause at 1:10 you can see they are hollow glasses

[conman2317]

@cdbelfield I knew there was no way they chugged that much beer with such ease

[drjonasson19]

@conman2317 well, most of these scenes require multiple re-takes, and chugging a full pint each time could create some troubles

[Conway79]

This isn't a sketch, it's just two guys ordering beer.

[yodasodaskoda]

This skit, like the beer, is weak as piss...despite their pedigree...shame really...Peep Show is the best thing on tv...wonder if the guys wrote this?

[Mopperty]

@yodasodaskoda Mitchell and Webb don't write peep show. 

[hazahaxa]

Haha, one of the related videos is Rehab by Amy Winehouse. Quite fitting really!

[abarai2007]

ooooooooooh why not

[Noodles37UK]

What a couple of fannies. Why don't they just go for the vodka if thyey're such pissheads? That's what I do.

[TheEnglishRedneck45]

@Noodles37UK Watch part two of this sketch - in the suggestions topside

[Yawehplaneswalker616]

@Noodles37UK

I think they're trying to pretend they're not pissheads. A point of the skit's that they're failing miserably at not seeming like a couple of drunkards.

[Noodles37UK]

@Yawehplaneswalker616 That's Russian Standard getting advertised across the UK now. About bloody time. It's the dog's bollocks lol!

[conman2317]

I keep watching this and getting drunk, am I insane?

[Yawehplaneswalker616]

@conman2317

No.

[benjitarius]

aha love that cheeky smile at the end

[IsNully]

Mitchell is well known as a drinker; especially beer.

Its entirely possible that this sketch is autobiographical.

[Weegator]

"What do you fancy Graham?", "Well, do you know John..."

Gee, I wonder who they're supposed to be?

[icecreamscuseme]

Cheapest I've seen sandwiches in a pub!

[TheGrindcore1]

This is a Prequel of "Lager Beer" sketch in Mitchell and Webb Look

[grobo11]

I really wish that Robert Webb grows a moustache like that in real life.

[frickinradical]

i wonder.. could this be the pre-quel sketch to the origins of sir digby chicken ceaser and ginger...¬_¬

[BaileysBeads]

This looks exactly like the pub in Hot Fuzz.

[JamesCFraser]

@BaileysBeads What a banal observation.

[1337Horde]

david mitchell plays the best alcoholic ever

[MOHSIN2]

ooohh do you know i think i could also do with a nice glass of beer

[loracwehtam]

What does 'on the slate' mean? Does it mean that he keeps a tab of all they've ordered and then they'll pay at the end?

[RJLeffmann]

The sketch parodizes a sort of British guilt over drinking, and so these two gentlemen feel the need to pretend it's their first time visiting this pub and that they just ordered two pints at a whim, but obviously the barkeep lets us know they're regulars. David Mitchell's acting is really great, just watch his facial expressions.

If you like this sketch, check out the Corner Shop/Lager Beer one as well.

[icecreamscuseme]

@RJLeffmann That's an interesting way of looking at it and trumps my interpretation. I thought that it was more about how easily people can fall into going to the pub and drinking their days away rather than go elsewhere (as the following sketches prove when they turn up at opening time next day).

[MarxistKnight]

I want a cool refreshing glass of crisp lager beer now!

[WKaliberr]

this is unfunny

[Oniwan75]

anyone think maybe, just maybe this is where the adventures of digby chicken caesar might have originated from? XD

[hyperseauton]

David Mitchell's sweater just kills me:)

Very convincing character impersonation in tackling the subject of upper class alcoholism.

[JoeTheToucan]

Absolute genius, especially without the terrible canned laughter

[sbyrne1]

Does on the slate mean they get those cool mugs?

[DrHamster786]

no on the slate means ..on the tab..meaning they dont have to pay back right away, their bill adds up, usually if you are a regular

[punkrockcop]

@DrHamster786 or if you're an American, you're just running it up on your Visa lol

[RivaJane]

Love the "OHH!" at 0:50! ROFL

[Destro7000]

I don't quite understand what the joke is saying

hmm lets have refreshing beer on a summers day, we've drunk some, and it was refreshing like we said ...wow let's have some more *end*

[jd174000]

The joke is they are both trying to cover up the fact that they are alcoholics by saying they just want a nice drink on a hot day. But if you watch the second part they both end up getting hammered. But they still keep up the pretense that they only want a 'cool refreshing drink'.

[zoidberg0308]

HAHA Destro 7000 is obviously a little slow :P

[neilss1]

dumb dumb dumb duuuummmbbb lol

[Kylevilhelm]

Calm it down guys. Would you like to be made fun of because you didn't understand something?

Please think before commenting.

[jonconlon]

If I was that fucking stupid I'd probably be used to it!

[Abokasee]

Theres a part two this, the youtube preview image kinda sums up.

[hardrockerdave94]

There's more than one part to the sketch, if you watch a visdeo called MItchell and Webb Look - refreshing glass of beer full, you will see the whole thing.

[malango255]

The fact that the landlord says ''on the slate'' means they are regulars customers. Only regular customers can have a drink on the slate, basically for free and pay later that month.

[blobby1972]

yes but did you know its ilegal to offer a slate in UK.

[malango255]

Yes I did having work as a barman in the past for 5 years. The expression is still well known I would say. But maybe not with the younger generations actually, oh and the yanks heh

[blobby1972]

yea lol

[Reanixy]

Isn't it landlords discretion?

[blobby1972]

no its law the idea is as a person drinks more and more they are no longer in full control of how much they drink and a slate means lesser honerable landlords could take advantage. its also elegal to sell drink to a person who is visibly entoxicated.but as we all know most pubs give slate to regs and serv people who a completly leggless all the time.

[Reanixy]

So what is the difference between a tab and a slate?

[blobby1972]

they are the same

[pattayalob]

@Reanixy a tab would probably be settled up at the end of the drinking session but a slate could be paid (say) at the end of the week or when it got rather large.

[odiousone]

Interesting spelling there old chap.

[blobby1972]

yes dam my retarded brain still it would be a very boring world if we were all perfect

[mmmmathe]

This is from Mitchell and Webb Look not Situation!

[carolineisreallycool]

no..it's situation, there's no laugh track.

[anirank]

Sounds like a language learning video. :-)

[nicknara24]

Six seconds to down a pint....impressive

[danvinesexgod]

lol I'm sure David Mitchell practices that frequently in his free time

[TerryToggs]

it'll be coloured water, not real beer. They probably did several takes of this sketch, perhaps 6, 7, maybe more. They wouldn't be downing that many pints so quickly and still be working effectively for the rest of the day!

[malango255]

Actually it will probably be real beer or non-alcoholic beer. They use special glass that look full but only contain a small amount of liquid, like a few mouth fulls. I've seen one, they use them of TV a lot.

[Shantaell]

In our film classes at media university we tend to use apple juice mixed with a bit of bubbling water. Surprisingly tasty actually.

Add more bubbling water and you have champagne ;).

[aaciseric]

Kinda like the corner shop one but still funny.

[northernmonkey03]

this sketch is amazing i love it, it always comes up in conversation down the pub with my mates. amazing

[raahead]

On a day like this

fantastic

[derangedband]

but this is just the into--the second part is the really funny bit XD check out part 2

haha--its hilarious

[fivedaysatknifepoint]

This is so awful. This series was so bad, I gave up after the second episode. Now watching these clips I see it didn't get any better.

[Sharkey1997]

WTF? You hated the series when it was on telly, but you still watched it on youtube afterwards? What kind of a tit does that, deliberately looks up stuff they don't like so they can watch it again??? Fucking wierdo.

[StrugglingTiger]

Silly question, but what does the bartender ask them at 0:57? I can't quite make it out.

[haveguitarwilltravel]

'on the slate?' as in not pay for it now but put it on a tab.

[fearsomestmoocow]

Bloody hell, well downed.

[LoafOfPint]

It was only coloured water, but yeah I guess it would still have been difficult.

[twoeggcups]

It's exactly as difficult to down a pint of coloured water as it is to down a pint of lager.

[lettherebelight1]

to be fair, the camera is speeded up...its completely obvious

[LyrcaVirgin]

no....its not

[Tattsyrup27]

LycraVirgin is absolutely right. It's not sped up, they're drinking out of trick glasses. There's a second, smaller glass inside the big one meaning that the beer you see is actually only lining the edge of the big glass, less that half a pint's worth. Well, I can't sit around here all day. I have other moments of television magic to destroy. Farewell!

[holydave]

Nope, it's not, downing a pint of water is very easy due to the lack of fizz, as long as you're thirsty.

And they're likely using trick glasses with a non alcoholic beverage in; they'd be reasonably wankered after the average 6 or so takes.

[Isanion]

they are trick glasses, you can see the inner one in Webb's glass.

[brpblack]

@holydave

Correct, Even an entire liter only takes about 12-15s for an experienced pisspot to finish, so a pint in 5 is no feat.

[Thesmitster]

That water that they have to drink tastes nasty though, so it's more effort :P

[morgman45]

Plus downing a bubbly drink is much harder than a flat drink.

[PMDVD]

They sell that in our pub and charge £2.50 a pint for it!

[stuellis]

i know its a sketch... the mitchwell and webb look is full of them. david mitchells character is in the mitchell and webb look at one point. but i have never heard of the M+W 'situation'.. when and where was it aired?

[stuellis]

ignore that, Jeff UK's reply didnt appear straight away. cheers

[elstevanos]

no, it's a sketch, hilarious

[stuellis]

im confused - is this like the pilot for mitchell and webb look?!

[JeffUK]

Mitch and Webb situation, a dvd they did for playuk